Right Now, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection –

“Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity”

Salvador Dali, “Uranium and Atomica Melancholica Idyll” (1945)

I mentioned in a previous post that Surrealism is making a comeback. The current exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is not an exception.

“Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity” includes many of the biggest names and well-known pieces, along with many works that, according to Sarah Douglas, editor and chief of ArtNews, have rarely been on public view.

From Douglas: “Occasionally an exhibition comes along to remind us that we don’t in fact know it as well as we think we do, and, serendipitously, such an exhibition happens to be on view right now at Venice’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection, less than a mile down the Grand Canal from the Biennale.”